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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read it.'Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begi...Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begi...Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begi...Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]MiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begi...Antonia White [unknown][a life of George Eliot]Print: Book
1900-1945'D.H. Lawrence draws so heavily on his own life - yet how often the best and freest part of his writing is his invention - like the wife in "The Captain's Doll".'Antonia White David Herbert LawrenceCaptain's Doll, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'Cecil King [n/a]Arabian Nights, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'Cecil King Charles Montagu DoughtyTravels in Arabia DesertaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'Cecil King Jean FroissartChroniclesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading again the notes I made this time last year about Basil. Somehow more truth and less distortion gets into these notebooks than into anything else.'Antonia White Antonia White[diary notebooks]Manuscript: Codex, notebook
1900-1945'Thanks ever so much for the book. One would want a long and warm talk about it.To set down the several trains of thought suggested by your pages would take many pieces o...Joseph Conrad H. G.(Herbert George) WellsNew Words for Old: A Plain Account of Modern Socia...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just begun Forster's Life of Dickens again. I did not finish it before. I think that will start me off for the autumn. I want a fact book not a fiction book. Ther...Antonia White John ForsterLife of Charles Dickens, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'While admiring Tom's book ['The Man Below', 1939] I have great pleasure in finding its weaknesses and though I cannot help admitting there are passages in it far beyond ...Antonia White Tom HopkinsonMan Below, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only ma...Antonia White Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only ma...Antonia White Arthur Conan Doyle[Sherlock Holmes Stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only ma...Antonia White Emily Coleman[unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'I think I am not [italics] serious [end italics] enough! Sometimes when I look through the [italics] New Statesman [end italics] ... I see all the lists of books on soci...Antonia White [n/a]New Statesman, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and in an American magazine. That is the idea of a person...Antonia White George Eliot[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and in an American magazine. That is the idea of a person...Antonia White [n/a][an American magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The shock last night when Ian was cold and unenthusiastic about the first bit of the book which I'd managed to write. I burnt it. I... hoped he would stop me... He expla...Ian Henderson Antonia White[MS fiction]Manuscript: Unknown


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